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When people cheer Mangione, watch for tons of pearl-clutching about norms from people who absolutely reject and ignore both norms and actual laws. They seek to impose standards they don’t follow. They’d never apply those norms and standards to Trumpism.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Also noting that many people in InfoSec gravitated to it due to a) the (perceived) authoritarian nature and b) it being a niche profession predominantly populated by white males. These people don't genuinely care about making the world better. They care about their own ability to wield power.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

When these DOGE idiots all click totally_admire_your_work.exe (and you know they will/have), they are going to give every hostile foreign power access to the sources and methods used by US intelligence community to keep the country's assets safe. This is going to set us back decades at minimum.

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Xintra founder Lina Lau has published a report that untangles and puts more clarity on how Chinese authorities claim the Equation Group (US NSA) hacked the Xi'an Northwestern Polytechnical University www.inversecos.com/2025/02/an-i...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

submitted 46 days ago • 59 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

It's a day for Brass Against brassagainst.com/videos

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

submitted 8 days ago • 248 comments

They did a mass firing of staff at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. These are the people who handle the safety of our nuclear stockpile. This is so catastrophically bad. Read this, and read it again.

submitted 8 days ago • 92 comments

This is a very interesting take that I have not heard aeticulated in quite this way before. What does it mean to worship the power of God rather than God? "God as power fantasy" solves a lot of questions about the link between white male supremacy and Christian nationalism.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

“If a hostile foreign power wanted to compromise US intelligence capabilities, would their wishlist look any different from what the Trump administration is actually doing?” <~ this question applies to most of the actions taken by the Trump/Musk administration since it took office.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...

submitted 16 days ago • 227 comments

I was able to leave a voice message for Sen. Padilla at this Washington office, but Sen. Schiff's voicemail box is full. I guess they're getting a lot of calls. Keep it going. Sen. Schiff can be contacted electronically via www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

submitted 16 days ago • 107 comments

Breaking down Elon Musk’s attempted coup and Democrats’ 4 part strategy to counter it.

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

Musk is a cheater. He always has been. He's only in the USA because he cheated on his visa. His business cheat, he cheats in video games, he cheats in government. Literally his entire identity is cheating and daring anyone to stop him.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is viciously targeting USAID as retribution for USAID attempting to probe Starlink equipment.

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

This is an excellent essay and should be shared widely. "Musk, a man who appears to view the United States government as merely another acquisition target for his interplanetary ambitions, is participating in the dismantling of constitutional governance."

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

This is why 1930s Germany is not the best analogy. 1920s America has more parallels. But America whitewashed post-reconstruction history and how dark and bloody that time was for Black Americans. Now here we are.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

submitted 18 days ago • 250 comments

Just a reminder that diversity is, in fact, a source of strength, that diverse and inclusive armies outperform exclusionary ones on modern battlefields, and that this anti-DEI witch hunt will actually harm cohesion in the US military I'm gonna send Pete a copy of my book

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

submitted 18 days ago • 238 comments

Oh so it's like literally a coup

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

The most popular political position in the world right now would be for Democrats to say "we're against the billionaires who are looting you" but instead they're all like "we just have to get past this together ❤️" What an abject fucking failure of a political party.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Lessons to be learned: 1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration 2. Centrists gain nothing 3. Far-right wins more power

submitted 22 days ago • 192 comments

Elon Musk does not give a single shit about how much money the government spends. Everything he is doing is to reduce its power to regulate all his shit-ass businesses. This should be in the first paragraph of any story about it.

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

submitted 22 days ago • 231 comments

So 97% of @NYMagUnion members--including me!-- just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @VoxMedia. If you love @NYMag, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

it’s wild how quickly all of society breaks down when the people in charge ruin everything intentionally

submitted 23 days ago • 43 comments

The Republicans and Democrats in Congress who voted for the Laken Riley Act, and endorsed its notions of detention and deportation without the rudiments of due process, facilitated today’s announcement of Trump concentration camps. They’d be wise not to go a single step further down that road.

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

not that this particular mechanism really matters anymore but demanding that federal employees take a loyalty oath to the president is imo an impeachable offense

submitted 25 days ago • 66 comments

Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 24 days ago • 1031 comments

Please, please listen, I am literally begging you: I'm a healthcare lawyer who is alive because of Medicaid. I just came from Hill meetings about Medicaid. I'm very plugged into "the groups" — if you're covered by Medicaid, do not cancel anything medical because of the OMB mess.

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

Honestly why humor this toddler’s whims at all? You don’t work for him. He doesn’t have any authority over the English language. Just call things what normal people call them.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments